AP Credit
AP Computer Science A Credit by College
Of 141 colleges whose AP charts name AP Computer Science A, 65 give credit or placement for a 3, 125 for a 4, and 133 for a 5.
| College | Lowest score | What it earns | With a 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 3 | Credit for CSCE 20004 | Same |
| Buffalo | 3 | 4 credits, general exam credit | 4 credits, CSE 115 |
| California State University-Long Beach | 3 | 3 units, CECS 174 | Same |
| Cincinnati | 3 | 3 credits, IT 1090C | 6 credits, IT 1090C and IT 2045C |
| Clemson | 3 | 4 credits, CPSC 1060 | Same |
| Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 3 | 4 credits, CS 1++ (elective) | 4 credits, CS 163 |
| Delaware | 3 | 3 credits, CISC 166DE (Computer Science elective) | Same |
| DePaul University | 3 | 4 credits, IT 130 | 8 credits, CSC 241 and CSC 242 |
| Florida | 3 | CGS L000 (3 credits; L000 has no UF course equivalent) | Same |
| Florida Atlantic University | 3 | 3 credits, CGS 1075 | Same |
| Florida International University | 3 | 3 credits, ELE UCC1 (elective) | 4 credits, COP 2210 |
| Florida State University | 3 | CGS 2060 (3) | Same |
| George Mason | 3 | 4 credits, CS elective | 4 credits, CS 112 |
| Houston | 3 | 3 hours, COSC 1336 | 7 hours, COSC 1336 and COSC 1437 |
| Indiana University-Bloomington | 3 | 3 credit hours, CSCI-C 102 | 4 credit hours, CSCI-C 200 |
| James Madison | 3 | 3 credits, CS 000 (elective) | 3 credits, CS 149 |
| Kansas | 3 | 3 hours, EECS 138 | Same |
| Kentucky | 3 | 3 credit hours, CS 115 | Same |
| Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | 3 | 3 hours, CSC 1250 | 3 hours, CSC 1253 or 1350 |
| Miami University-Oxford | 3 | 3 hours, CSE 174 | 6 hours, CSE 174 and CSE 271 |
| Mississippi State University | 3 | 4 hours, CSE 1284 | Same |
| NC State | 3 | 3 hours, CSC 110 | 3 hours, CSC 116 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | 4 credits, CS 415 | Same |
| North Texas | 3 | 3 hours, CSCE 1010 | 4 hours, CSCE 1030 |
| Ohio State | 3 | Computer Science and Engineering 1223 (3) | Computer Science and Engineering 1223 (3); Computer Science and Engineering 2123 (3) (score 4+) |
| Ole Miss | 3 | 3 hours, CSCI 1011 | Same |
| Oregon State University | 3 | 4 credits, CS 161 | Same |
| Purdue | 3 | CS 1XXXX (undistributed credit) | CS 17700 (score 4 or 5) |
| San Diego State | 3 | 3 units, CS 299 | 4 units, CS 150 and CS 150L |
| San Jose State University | 3 | 3 units, CS 46A | Same |
| Stony Brook | 3 | 4 credits, CSE 101 | 4 credits, CSE 114 and waiver of CSE 101 |
| Syracuse University | 3 | 3 credits, CPS 196 | 3 credits, CIS 151 |
| Texas A&M University-College Station | 3 | CSCE 110, 4 credit hours | Same |
| Texas Tech | 3 | 3 hours, CS 1305 | 4 hours, CS 1411 |
| The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 3 | COSC 101 (students admitted fall 2021 and later) | Same |
| The University of Texas at Dallas | 3 | 3 hours, CS lower-level transfer elective | 7 hours, CS 1436, 1337 |
| UC Berkeley | 3 | 5.3 semester units | Same |
| UC Davis | 3 | 8 quarter units, ECS 032A | Same |
| UC Irvine | 3 | 8 units elective credit | Same |
| UC San Diego | 3 | 8 units; no course exemption listed for a score of 3 | 8 units; score of 4 or 5 exempts CSE 8A |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3 | 8 units; one Science, Mathematics, and Technology GE course; satisfies Quantitative Relationships requirement | Same |
| UC Santa Cruz | 3 | 8 units, CSE 10 | 8 units, CSE 5J |
| UCLA | 3 | 8.0 units, COM SCI Unassigned (page notes "units offered may vary") | Same |
| UIC | 3 | 3 hours, CS 111 | 6 hours, CS 111 and CS 141 |
| UIUC | 3 | CS 105, 3 credit hours | CS 101, 3 credit hours (score 4 or 5) |
| UNC Chapel Hill | 3 | COMP ELECTIVE, 3 credit hours | COMP 110, 3 credit hours |
| University at Albany | 3 | 3 credits, CINF E00 | 4 credits, ICSI 201 |
| University of California-Merced | 3 | 5.3 semester units; exempts CSE 005; fulfills the General Education Language requirement | Exempts CSE 022 |
| University of California-Riverside | 3 | 2 units elective credit | 2 units elective credit and placement after individual counseling |
| University of Central Florida | 3 | CGS 1075 | Same |
| University of Maryland-College Park | 3 | 2 credits, Lower Level Elective | 4 credits, CMSC 131 |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 3 | 4 credits, Computer Science 1103 | Same |
| University of Missouri-Columbia | 3 | 3 credits, Computer Science 2111 | 3 credits, Computer Science 3330 |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 3 | 3 credits, CSCE 155E | Same |
| University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 3 | C S 1323 plus 1 elective hour (C S 1999) | Same |
| University of South Carolina-Columbia | 3 | CSCE 145 | Same |
| University of South Florida | 3 | 3 credits, CGS 1075 (not offered at USF) | Same |
| UT Austin | 3 | C S 302 | C S 312 (score 4-5) |
| Utah | 3 | 4 hours, CS 1400 | 8 hours, CS 1400 and CS 1410 |
| UW | 3 | CSE 121, 4 credits (score 3, 4, 5) | Same |
| UW-Madison | 3 | COMP SCI 200, 3 credits (score 3-5) | Same |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | 3 | 4 credits, CMSC 254 | 4 credits, CMSC 255 |
| Virginia Tech | 3 | CS 1114, 3 credits (score 3, 4, or 5) | Same |
| Washington State University | 3 | 3 credits, Computer Science elective | Same |
| West Virginia | 3 | 3 credit hours, CS 1AP | 4 credit hours, CS 110 and 110L |
| Arizona | 4 | 4 units, CSC 110 | Same |
| Arizona State University Campus Immersion | 4 | 3 hours, CSE 110 or ACO 101 (score 5 or 4) | Same |
| Auburn University | 4 | 3 hours, COMP 1210 | Same |
| Barnard College | 4 | 3 points; exemption from COMS W1004 | Same |
| Bates | 4 | Course 109 (as listed on the chart) | Same |
| Boston University | 4 | 4 credits, CAS CS 111 | Same |
| Carleton | 4 | 6 credits (for Computer Science 111) | Same |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 4 | 10 units, 15-110, Principles of Computing | 12 units, 15-112, Fundamentals of Programming |
| Case Western | 4 | 3 credit hours, ENGR 131 | Same |
| Colby College | 4 | 3 credits, generic Computer Science credit | Same |
| Colgate | 4 | 1 course credit, COSC 101 | Same |
| College of William & Mary | 4 | 4 credits, CSCI 141 | Same |
| Columbia | 4 | 3 points, along with an exemption from COMS W1004 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Java | Same |
| Dartmouth | 4 | Computer Science 1 credit; placement in Computer Science 10, 30 | Same |
| Davidson | 4 | Credit for CSC 121 | Same |
| Denver | 4 | 4 credits, COMP 1351 | 8 credits, COMP 1351 and COMP 1XXX |
| Drexel | 4 | 3 credits, CS 190 | Same |
| Duke | 4 | COMPSCI 101L | Same |
| Emory | 4 | 3 credit hours, CS 170 | Same |
| George Washington | 4 | 3 credits, CSCI 1111 | Same |
| Georgia Tech | 4 | CS 1301, 3 hours (score 4 or 5) | Same |
| Gonzaga | 4 | 3 credits, Computer Science 121 | Same |
| Grinnell College | 4 | 4 credits in Science Division, not for major credit | Same |
| Hofstra | 4 | 4 credits, CSC 15 | Same |
| Howard | 4 | 3 credits, CSCI 100 | Same |
| Iowa | 4 | 4 s.h., duplicates CS:1210 Computer Science I: Fundamentals | Same |
| Iowa State | 4 | 4 credits, Computer Science 1270 | 8 credits, Computer Science 1270 and 2270 |
| Lehigh | 4 | 4 credits, CSE 007 | Same |
| Loyola Chicago | 4 | 3 hours, COMP 170 | Same |
| Marquette | 4 | 4 credits, COSC 1020 | Same |
| Miami | 4 | 4 credits, CSC 120 | Same |
| Michigan State | 4 | 4 credits, CSE 231 | Same |
| Northeastern | 4 | 4 SH, CS1990 (Computer Science Elective) | Same |
| Northwestern | 4 | 1 unit (COMP_SCI 1CA) | Same |
| NYU | 4 | 4 credits, CSCI-UA 101 | Same |
| Oberlin | 4 | 1 full course, CSCI 150 | Same |
| Penn State | 4 | 3 general credits of Computer Science (grade of four or five) | Same |
| Pitt | 4 | 4 credits, CMPINF 0401 | Same |
| Rice | 4 | 3 credit hours, COMP 105 | Same |
| Rochester | 4 | Credit for CSC 171 | Same |
| RPI | 4 | 4 credits, CSCI 1100 | Same |
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 4 | 01:198:110, 3 credits | 01:198:111, 4 credits |
| Santa Clara | 4 | 5 quarter units, CSEN 10 and 10L (engineering majors only) or CSCI 10 | 10 quarter units, CSEN 10, 10L, 11 and 11L (engineering majors only), or 5 units for CSCI 10 |
| Seton Hall University | 4 | 4 credits, computer science elective | Same |
| Southern Methodist University | 4 | 3 hours, CS 1341 | Same |
| Stanford University | 4 | 5 units, CS 105,106A | Same |
| Swarthmore | 4 | 1 credit after completing one Swarthmore computer science course | Same |
| Temple | 4 | 4 credits, Computer & Information Science 1068 | Same |
| Texas Christian University | 4 | 3 hours, COSC 10403 | Same |
| The University of Alabama | 4 | 4 credits, CS 100 | Same |
| Tufts | 4 | 3 credits, COMP 0005 | Same |
| Tulane | 4 | 3 credit hours, CPST 2200 | Same |
| UConn | 4 | 3 credits, CSE 1010 | Same |
| UGA | 4 | CSCI 1301 (4 credit hours) | Same |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 4 | 4 credits, CICS 110 | Same |
| UVA | 4 | 3 credits for CS 1110 (score 4 or 5) | Same |
| Vermont | 4 | 3 credits, 1000-level Computer Science credit | Same |
| Villanova | 4 | 4 credits, CSC 1051 | Same |
| Wake Forest | 4 | 4 hours, CSC 111 | Same |
| WashU | 4 | 3 units of general elective credit for CSE 1301 | Same |
| Brandeis | 5 | 4 credits, COSI 10a | Same |
| Cornell | 5 | 4 credits; placement out of CS 1110 | Same |
| CU Boulder | 5 | 4 credits, CSCI 1300 | Same |
| Johns Hopkins | 5 | 3 credits, EN.500.112 | Same |
| Michigan | 5 | EECS 180, 4 credit hours | Same |
| Penn | 5 | CIS 1100 (1 c.u.) | Same |
| Vanderbilt | 5 | 3 credit hours, CS 1101: Programming & Problem Solving | Same |
| Wellesley | 5 | 1 unit, CS 111 | Same |
| Boston College | None | No credit | |
| Bowdoin | None | No credit; used for course placement only | |
| Brown | None | No credit | |
| Georgetown University | None | No credit | |
| Hamilton | None | No credit | |
| MIT | None | No credit | |
| University of Chicago | None | No credit | |
| Yale University | None | No credit |
Frequently asked questions
Do colleges give credit for a 3 on AP Computer Science A?
65 of the 141 colleges listed here do. 125 accept a 4, and 133 accept a 5. 8 give nothing for this exam at any score.
Does a 5 on AP Computer Science A earn more than a 4?
At some colleges, yes. The last column of the table shows where a 5 earns more credit or a higher course than the minimum score does.
Each row was read from the college’s own registrar, catalog, or admissions page and last checked 2026-10-08. Colleges whose pages do not name this exam are left out. Confirm with the college before you plan around it.
